Metropolitan Police: Finance
(asked on 16th July 2019) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much funding the Government has allocated to the Metropolitan Police Service in each year since 2015.
The 2019/20 police funding settlement provides the biggest increase in police funding since 2010, with more money for local police forces, counter terrorism and tackling serious and organised crime
Total funding is increasing by over £1 billion in 2019/20, including council tax, extra funding for pensions costs, and the serious violence fund.
The Metropolitan Police Service are receiving £2,735.4m in total funding (including council tax) in 2019/20, an increase of £175.3m on 2018/19 and a total of £224.6m compared to 2017/18.
The table below sets out the core grant funding figures for the Metropolitan Police Service each year since 2015 including the National, International and Capital City Grant:
Core grant funding | 2015/2016 | 2016/2017 | 2017/2018 | 2018/2019 | 2019/2020 |
| £m | £m | £m | £m | £m |
MPS | 2,087.5 | 1,904.6 | 1,882.1 | 1,882.1 | 1,927.1 |